Nancy Pelosi wants YOU (Stop Me Before I Vote Again)

Nancy Pelosi wants YOU

By Michael J. Smith on Saturday May 30, 2009 12:03 PM

I may have mentioned before that I regularly get begging emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). I got one a couple months ago signed by Al Gore. More recently I've had a few signed by James Carville. Why anybody would think that people would want to send money to James Carville or anything associated with him is hard to fathom, but presumably the DCCC know their target market.

Today's mail jumped the shark, though:

From: Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Subject: Because of You
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:44:50 -0400
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.71-blue_mailer]
Dear Michael,
You are among a special group of committed Democrats whose sacrifice and dedication made our victories last November possible. For all you've done to support the Democratic Party and to move America in a New Direction you have my deepest gratitude.
I want to offer you and a guest a special invitation for a chance to join me at my table at our dinner with President Obama in Washington, DC on June 18th for the President's Dinner.
Contribute $5, $10, or more and be automatically entered for a chance to win a free trip to Washington, D.C. to join President Obama and me....

Now this raises a couple of obvious questions:

What's second prize -- two dinners with Nancy Pelosi?
If I don't contribute, will Nancy come to my house and waterboard me?

Posted by Michael J. Smith on Saturday May 30, 2009 12:03 PM | Permalink

Comments (8)

hce:

Aside from the thrill of the prize (ooh, I'd be so nervous sitting next to her majesty -- I'm all a flutter. . . what if she spoke to me?) I wouldn't just jump at this blindly!! Note that it's not really an "invitation" but just a "chance" to win an invitation. In that case, I need to know exactly how many similar chances are being mailed out. I need to know the odds before I reply. I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole unless at least forty million similar invitations have been mailed, reducing my odds of winning to zero.

Posted by hce | May 30, 2009 6:01 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 18:01

MJS:

Wrong denominator. Your probability of winning is the inverse of the number of people who actually responded with a contribution -- approximately, the most active 10% of Daily Kos readers. Not a nearly large enough number. And shrinking daily, I hope.

Posted by MJS | May 30, 2009 6:34 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 18:34

dermokrat:

personally i'd love for you to get a chance to attend MJS...is there any way you can get around actually donating money though (and still be entered into the lottery)?

Posted by dermokrat | May 30, 2009 7:12 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 19:12

Billy O'Connor

I decided to play it safe and sent four dollars.

Posted by Billy O'Connor | May 30, 2009 7:57 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 19:57

Peter:

Maybe I'll enter Grace Slick's name. She probably doesn't get out of the house much anymore, and the trip would do everyone a world of good.

Posted by Peter | May 30, 2009 9:07 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 21:07

StO:

Why? Why must she want ME?

Posted by StO | May 30, 2009 11:22 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 23:22

MJS:

Gotta admit -- I would like to go. I'd get blind drunk and make lots of dumb waterboarding jokes and then throw up, if I could manage it, in Nancy's general direction.

It's a long story, but I did once get invited to a Washington affair where I managed to spill a glass of wine -- red wine -- on Alan Greenspan. Not deliberate, I'm sorry to say, but a great moment all the same.

Posted by MJS | May 30, 2009 11:40 PM

Posted on May 30, 2009 23:40

Michael Dawson:

Dig the New Direction, in caps! Sponsored by PepsiCo, maker of fine not-Coke since 1903, and proud supporter of NPR's "The Same Things Considered in Nasal Pseudo-Intellectual Tones."

Posted by Michael Dawson | May 31, 2009 3:30 PM

Posted on May 31, 2009 15:30

Stop Me Before I Vote Again

If you're a Lefty like us, the Democrats are not your friends

Nancy Pelosi wants YOU

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